Tom Jones (coach)
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John Tom Jones (December 6, 1923 – July 14, 2014) was an
American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Troy State University—now known as
Troy University Troy University is a public university in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System, and is now the flagship university of the Troy University System. It was one ...
—from 1972 to 1973, compiling a record of 11–7–2. He was also the
athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches a ...
at Troy State from 1972 to 1974. Jones was hired at Troy State after coaching the freshman football team at
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for six seasons. Jones was a native of
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. He played high school football for coach J. E. "Hot" O'Brien and was part of the Tallassee Tigers' legendary 57-game unbeaten streak (56 wins, 1 tie). He died at his home in Lowndesboro, Alabama on July 14, 2014, at the age of 90.


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